Sizing you can trust
Sellers list the size their kid actually wore, plus the insole length in centimetres. Half the returns in kids' footwear are sizing, so we make you measure.
Community marketplace for junior sport
Kids grow out of boots long before they wear them out.
Buy and sell outgrown footy, soccer and basketball boots with other parents nearby — and choose a slice of every sale to go straight to your local club.
- 1,284pairs rehomed
- $18,450raised for clubs
- 41clubs on board
Three steps, then they're someone else's problem
No haggling in Facebook comments. No meeting a stranger in a Bunnings car park at 9pm.
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Snap and list
Photo, sport, size, condition. Pick the club you want to support. Takes about two minutes on your phone.
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Sell to a local family
Buyers filter by sport, size and suburb. Pay in the app, then collect at training or post them for a flat $9.95.
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Your club gets a cut
Your chosen slice lands in the club's account automatically. They see it on their dashboard the same day.
Boots looking for a new season
Every pair checked by the family who owned it. Sizes are the kid's real fit, not the box.
Nothing in that size just yet
New pairs land most evenings. Widen the filters, or set an alert and we'll text you.
The bit clubs care about
You set the slice. The club gets it automatically.
When you list a pair, you nominate a club and pick how much of the sale goes to them — anywhere from 5% to 20%. It's deducted at checkout and paid out weekly, so nobody's chasing anybody for a bank transfer.
- Clubs get a page, a share link and a running total they can put in the newsletter.
- Registered not-for-profit clubs only — verified before a cent moves.
- Seller still keeps the bulk of it. This isn't a donation bin.
What a sale looks like
- You keep
- $50.40
- Coburg Juniors FC
- $6.00
- BootSwap fee (6%)
- $3.60
Sell three outgrown pairs a year and that's $18 to your club without opening your wallet.
The leaderboard clubs actually check
Season to date. Clubs promote it because it costs them nothing and their families were selling these boots anyway.
Run a junior club?
Get a club page, a QR code for the canteen wall and a share link for the team app. Free, and takes one form.
Held payments
Money sits with us until the buyer confirms pickup. If the boots aren't as described, it goes back — no group-chat arguments.
Meet at training
Most swaps happen at a ground both families already go to. Pick a club as your handover point and skip the awkward driveway meet.
Boots too far gone?
List them as Free — parts. Clubs take them for their loan bin, and worn-out studs go to a recycler instead of landfill.
Questions your brother will ask
Why wouldn't people just use Facebook Marketplace?
They can, and they do — badly. Boots get buried under couches and lawnmowers, there's no size filter, no payment protection, and nothing goes to the club. Here the whole catalogue is one category, filtered by the two things that matter: sport and size. And the club angle gives it a distribution channel Marketplace can't touch.
What's actually in it for the clubs?
Money they didn't have to run a fundraiser for, and a genuinely useful thing to send their families. A club with 300 junior members turning over two pairs each per season at $50 and a 10% slice is roughly $3,000 a year for putting a link in a newsletter.
How does BootSwap make money?
A 6% platform fee on completed sales, plus flat-rate postage margin. Club donations come out of the sale price, not out of the fee — so the model doesn't fight itself. At scale the interesting revenue is brand-new stock: retailers paying to put current-season boots in front of a parent who just searched "US 4".
Is second-hand footwear a health issue?
It's the standard objection and worth answering head-on. Boots are graded on condition and sellers confirm the sole and studs are intact; anything past it is listed as parts. Kids outgrow boots in a season or two, so most listings have had far less wear than the average op-shop shoe.
Why boots specifically, and not all sports gear?
Boots are the sharpest version of the problem: expensive, replaced every single season on growth alone, and near-useless to the family once outgrown. Start narrow, own the category, then add shin pads, mouthguards and club jumpers once the club network exists.
There's a pair in your cupboard right now.
Someone's kid is starting the season in boots a size too small. Fix both problems in about two minutes.